So often it seems that young people do not think beyond their immediate future. In the case of criminal behavior this can leave them with consequences that they did not think about. When sentencing a young person, should this be…
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Laws are defined as being rules of conduct for the way that physical objects behave in the environment. For example, there are those laws of motion and of gravity and a whole lot of other laws of behavior that legally…
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Criminal is a word that you’ve likely heard frequently throughout your lifetime. The word is frequently used in newscasts, is voiced on the radio and in conversation, and is printed in newspapers and seen on the Internet, however what does…
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Society is the modern world is all its splendor and warts. Society moves slowly to systems reform. But it does change over time. Ideas such as prohibiting slavery, human rights, a drive toward progressive and ever more inclusive circles of who…
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Author’s Note: Before I begin this essay I would like to notify the reader that I will at times be speaking in terms of stereotypical generalizations. While it is my firm belief that stereotypes are an evil in our society,…
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With the prison population in New Zealand at an all time high, it has been said that we need to find ways to reduce not only the current population, but also the new and recidivist offenders. People might have no…
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Oil spills introduce volumes of oil into the atmosphere and top layers of the water where natural weathering begins immediately. Depending on the water temperatures and composition, gases vent off, the remaining solids are subject to movement by tides and…
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Born in 19th century Europe, the Positivist School of Criminology gained popularity during the Enlightenment or Age of Reason. This school of thought represented a shift from abstract thinking to rationalism. Classical criminology viewed people as rational beings with free…
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Primates are a mammalian order placed as first of all mammalian orders by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the Swedish naturalist who laid down the system for classifying living organisms, because it is the order to which man belongs. In addition to…
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LIKE THE RIVERS SPILL INTO THE SEA The nature of humans is criminal if looked at from a purely legal stance, where even parking in a disabled-only space, is considered a lack of integrity and dishonest. There is a particularly…
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